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Bloomberg:
Sources: Spotify retaliates against artists who give exclusives to rivals by demoting their songs in search results and excluding tracks from promoted playlists — Service said to tell labels it may keep tracks off playlists — Apple Music emerges as largest challenge to streaming leader
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Billboard, Business Insider, Gizmodo, AppleInsider, @lucas_shaw, The Next Web, Engadget, The Verge and Daring Fireball
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Ben Sisario / New York Times:
Frank Ocean's exclusive, independent release of new album highlights tensions among artists, music labels, and digital services — The shoo-in for No. 1 on Billboard's next album chart is Frank Ocean's “Blonde,” which has charmed critics and enthralled fans who had waited four years since his last record.
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Fast Company, The Verge, Complex, Variety, @1000timesyes, MacRumors, MacRumors, @forbestech, @ennisnyt, @leftsentthis, @forbes, Pitchfork, hypebot, AppleInsider, @judystakee, @anildash, Complex, The FADER, The FADER, Business Insider, 9to5Mac, Engadget, The Drum, Complex, hypebot, Fast Company and Fortune
Facebook Newsroom:
Facebook will now select stories and excerpts automatically for Trending topic pages, show topics instead of story descriptions in Trending section — Today, we're making some changes to the Trending feature on Facebook that will make the product more automated and will no longer require people …
Alex Spence / Politico:
After the US election, alt-right website Breitbart News intends to launch in France, seeing a business opportunity in the rise of nationalist politics — LONDON — Stephen Bannon intends to get Donald Trump into the White House — and then he's set on conquering Europe.
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Marie Le Conte / BuzzFeed:
How Breitbart Boosted Nigel Farage And Helped Take Him To The Heart Of The Trump Campaign
How Breitbart Boosted Nigel Farage And Helped Take Him To The Heart Of The Trump Campaign
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@katherinemiller and @raheemkassam
Kristen Hare / Poynter:
How USA Today's nuanced coverage of Ryan Lochte's Rio drama provides insights into handling a fast-moving story with caution — Last Thursday, Taylor Barnes and other journalists crowded into a theater across the street from a police station in Rio de Janeiro.
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Fox News, USA Today, @jayrosen_nyu, NPR, @dangillmor, Complex, Mediaite, South Florida Business Journal, Joe.My.God., The Daily Caller, Forbes and The Week
Sarah Ellison / Vanity Fair:
After Ailes, it remains unclear if prized anchor Megyn Kelly will renew her contract with Fox; if Bill O'Reilly stays on, one source says, Kelly is likely to go — Within its subterranean newsroom, staffers and executives have a new fear: will they be able to convince Megyn Kelly to re-sign …
Ken Doctor / Politico:
Sources: Tronc mulls a third purchase offer from Gannett, at more than $18 per share, and moves forward with a formal counteroffer — It's apparently no longer a question of whether to sell or not, but for how much. — It's apparently no longer a question of whether to sell or not, but for how much.
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Deadline, @politico_media, @pkafka, The Wrap, @imleor, @markcaro, @jonchesto, @kdoctor, @kdoctor, @alexweprin and FishbowlNY
Alexios Mantzarlis / Poynter:
Study: frequent readers of partisan news sites are more likely to hold misperceptions even if they're aware of evidence — Reading lots of partisan news online makes you more likely to hold inaccurate beliefs even if you are aware of the prevailing evidence, according to a study published …
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@edkelley16, @heddingkj, @poynter, @lmoliva_, @wpmediainsights, @samrat, @brikeilarcnn, @_hgz_, Wiley Online Library, @journalismfest, @msidealab, @mantzarlis, @mediashiftorg, @poynter and Cision
Sarah Frier / Bloomberg:
Sources: Twitter is working on an anti-harassment tool to let users filter posts using keywords — Abuse has led to depature of several high-profile users — New solution is similar to Instagram's keyword-based filter — Twitter Inc. is working on a keyword-based tool that will let people filter …
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@sarahfrier, The Hill, @digiphile, @sarahfrier, @kurtwagner8, @willoremus, MacRumors, Gizmodo, The Verge, @kcoxdc, @oliverdarcy, @kantrowitz, Engadget, @torbahax, CNET, @nicholasadeleon, @caseynewton, New York Magazine and Consumerist
Juliette Garside / Guardian:
Draft rules for EU would let publishers demand payment from Google and Facebook for article extracts in services like Google News — Measures are part of a series of planned European commission changes designed to strengthen rights of creators and publishers
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Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Consumerist, @jeffjarvis, @mathewi and IT ProPortal
Jon Ralston / Ralston Reports:
Reporters for Adelson's Las Vegas Review-Journal were told to ask candidates a not-for-publication question about public funding for Raiders stadium — Reporters for Sheldon Adelson's newspaper have been told to ask candidates if they support public money for the stadium proposed …
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Deadspin, Mediaite, Deadspin, @jayrosen_nyu, @ralstonreports, Awful Announcing and @ralstonreports
Sahil Patel / Digiday:
NBCUniversal's partnership with BuzzFeed for Olympics Snapchat coverage garnered 35M viewers over two weeks, with 2.2B views and 230M minutes of consumption — NBCUniversal decided to turn over the keys to its Snapchat account to BuzzFeed for the Olympics.
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@joelcifer, @mattjroper, @hearstcorp, @andrewgauthier, @peretti, @poynter, Strategist, @digiday, @tomgara and @niemanlab